LEAKED! The Games That Will Launch With The iPad Next Saturday

An early list of apps that Apple has approved to launch with the iPad has leaked, thanks to some digging through the iTunes database by PadGadget.

Most of the titles listed by the site are games, and most of them are just updated "HD" versions of iPhone games. We're not sure if that's a term that developers have settled with on their own, or if Apple has steered them that way.

But either way, it's indicative that at least many iPad game developers will seek to charge extra for iPad versions of their games, versus mashing their iPad and iPhone versions into the same app. (Makes sense.)

Barry, there's attribution and links all over the place. I don't think PadGadget is going to be upset with all the traffic we're sending them. (Considering I had never heard of the site before reading this story.)

Hey, Pascal! Can you show me where TechCrunch has cribbed another site's reporting into a slideshow and completely rejected being a good 'link economy' citizen? I've never seen that! If you're gonna use the 'TechCrunch does it' excuse, please show your work!

OK, so this is alright since PadGadget is a small obscure site? So, you you're saying you wouldn't treat NYT or WSJ content like this? I didn't know fair use rules varied by source and your perception of their 'value' and whether or not Dan Frommer has heard of them, but good to know Alley Insider's policy!

To close the loop, so people who read this don't think I am ignoring the issue. (Because I don't think you'll actually call me.)

- We will continue to source information from other sites and turn it into stories, galleries, etc., as we have for almost three years.
- We will ALWAYS attribute the source of the information and link as thoroughly as makes sense.
- We have done that in this case.
- We're always happy to discuss this with sites who think we may have taken too much of their content or missing attribution. We only want to except the way we'd want to be excerpted.
- In general, we hope sites are happy that we are finding their work interesting and linking to it. We know we are definitely happy when sites find our work interesting enough to write about (and link to).
- In this specific case, I think this post is more informative than a simple list, because I had never heard of most of these games before. So not only do I get their name (already on every site) but a graphic and description. If the iPad games were live in the App Store, we'd link to them, too.